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@@ -4,10 +4,10 @@
 
 <!-- Title information -->
 
-<title>The DXSpider Installation Manual v1.49</title> 
+<title>The DXSpider Installation Manual v1.50</title> 
 <author>Iain Philipps, G0RDI (g0rdi@77hz.com) and
 Ian Maude, G0VGS, (g0vgs@gb7mbc.net)</author>
-<date>February 2002 revision 1.2</date>
+<date>July 2002 revision 0.1</date>
 
 <abstract>
 A reference for SysOps of the DXSpider DXCluster program.
@@ -23,12 +23,9 @@ A reference for SysOps of the DXSpider DXCluster program.
 <sect1>Introduction
 
 <P>
-This section describes the installation of DX Spider v1.47 on a 
+This section describes the installation of DX Spider v1.50 on a 
 <htmlurl url="http://www.redhat.com" name="RedHat"> Linux Distribution.
 Wherever possible I will try to include differences for other distributions.  
-I do not intend to try and cover the installation of Linux or the setup 
-of the AX25 utilities.  If you need help on this then read Iains original 
-installation guide that comes with the Spider distribution.
 
 <P>
 I am assuming a general knowledge of Linux and its commands.  You should 
@@ -56,6 +53,7 @@ perl distribution.
 <item> <htmlurl url="http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Net/Net-Telnet-3.02.tar.gz" name="Net-Telnet-3.02.tar.gz">
 <item> <htmlurl url="http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Curses/Curses-1.06.tar.gz" name="Curses-1.06.tar.gz">
 <item> <htmlurl url="http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Time/Time-HiRes-01.20.tar.gz" name="Time-HiRes-01.20.tar.gz">
+<item> <htmlurl url="http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Digest/Digest-SHA1-2.01.tar.gz" name="Digest-SHA1-2.01.tar.gz">
 </itemize>
 
 <P>
@@ -108,6 +106,13 @@ Log in as 'root', and make sure you're at '/root' before you continue. Here are
 # make test
 # make install
 # cd ..
+#
+# tar xvfz /usr/local/packages/Digest-SHA1-2.01.tar.gz
+# cd Digest-SHA1-2.01
+# perl Makefile.pl
+# make test
+# make install
+# cd ..
 </verb>
 
 <P>
@@ -120,7 +125,7 @@ nearly are! Pay particular attention to the instructions of <em>IO</em>, above.
 <P>
 I will assume that you have already downloaded the latest tarball of 
 the DXSpider software and are ready to install it. I am assuming version 
-1.47 for this section but of course you would use the latest version.
+1.50 for this section but of course you would use the latest version.
 
 <P>
 Login as root and create a user to run the cluster under.  <bf><it>UNDER 
@@ -158,7 +163,7 @@ permissions.  Copy the tarball to /home/sysop and do the following.
 
 <tscreen><verb>
 # cd ~sysop
-# tar xvfz spider-1.47.tar.gz
+# tar xvfz spider-1.50.tar.gz
 # ln -s ~sysop/spider /spider
 # groupadd -g 251 spider       (or another number)
 </verb></tscreen>
@@ -296,7 +301,7 @@ It should look something like this ...
 
 <tscreen><verb>
 $ ./cluster.pl
-DXSpider DX Cluster Version 1.47
+DXSpider DX Cluster Version 1.50
 Copyright (c) 1998 Dirk Koopman G1TLH
 loading prefixes ...
 loading band data ...
@@ -436,6 +441,10 @@ There are 2 main node packages in use of which I shall keep to the
 original by Tomi Manninen, OH2BNS as this is included in the ax25
 rpms as standard.  The other is <htmlurl url="ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/ham/packet/linux/awznode/" name="AWZNode"> by IZ5AWZ.
 
+<P>
+NB: The AX25 stuff in 2.4 kernels appears to have been broken until 2.4.18.  I
+strongly suggest you get at least this kernel.
+
 <P>
 For 2.4 kernels you need these files...